A reversible coat of tan silk and brown wool jersey. Max Meyer manufacturer who went to Paris after WWI to buy models from Chanel, Poiret and Callot to reproduce. In his biography he states that until after WWI U.S. manufacturers ignored Paris and...

Frontier University Dreams A Story of Botantists, Bodysnatchers, and Bugeaters video television tv full program episode documentary historical historic history Geyer Cavett Historian McKee Architectural Logan-Peters English Professor Knoll Nebraska...

Pioneering the harsh landscape of Nebraska was difficult enough in 1869. Pioneering a new university was almost beyond reason. What was a university? Who should go? What should be taught? There were no guidebooks. No road maps. They were building a...

A view of the front of the Square Turn tractor. Caption on the back of the photo reads: "Lester Larsen shows Square Turn Tractor to Mrs. Jensen whose father helped manufacture them in Norfolk, Nebr. before WWI. Photo taken by Elaine Larsen in 1986.

"Jeffery Quad truck (Four wheel drive-army type). Built by the Thomas B. Jeffery Co., Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA. It drives, steers, and brakes on all four wheels." The length of the vehicle and the large truckbed indicate tyhat this was an...

"R.16. French plane brought down, the pilot is burning (with his machine). North-Reims 1918." In a flat field five soldiers look at the smoking frame of a crashed airplane while two more soldiers walk away to the right.

"V.6.-Sacy- South of Reims-Main street an American ambulance car." Two soldiers sit in the front seat of the ambulance while another stands in front of it on this road in Sacy, France. The buildings along the road have caved-in roofs and holes in...

"C.16. A boche anti-air-craft gun upside down by our heavy artillery. Road to Chemin-des-Dames. Aug, 1917." The twisted wreckage of an overturned vehicle lies to the left of a rural, dirt road. Two soldiers, one of whom has a bicycle, stand on the...

"C.17. A boche anti-air-craft gun upside down. The shells are still in the caison. (Chemin-des-Dames). Aug, 1917." The twisted wreckage of an overturned vehicle lies to the left of a rural dirt road. Four soldiers, at least three of whom are...

"C.29. Chemin des Dames and Ravine of Flanders, at the ond efan [sic] attack. Two shells are just bursting (November 1917)." In a rural setting, soldiers stand at relatively regular intervals between a fence of posts and wire and a trench. One...

"C.56. Romagne near Verdun." On the right a bridge spans a river to a road that runs in front of ruined buildings in Romagne, France. Rubble and lumber is piled along the road. Most of the buildings have no roofs and holes in their walls.

"C.22. Pontavert. A bridge on the Aisne blown up. The new pontoon ready some days later. Nov, 1917." In the left foreground and right background remnants of the destroyed bridge dip down into the river. Farther back a man stands on a second,...

"R 11 Berincourt nationale [sic] road Reims to Rethel blown up by a late mine 'Face' oct [sic] 1918" To the right, two men stand on the opposite side of a blown up bridge on a road between Reims and Rethel in France. Just below the image's center a...

"C.42. Paissy-Heurtebise, 'Chemin-des-Dames' near Craonne. Nov. 1917." A scenic view of some buildings along a road near Craonne. Most of the buildings appear destroyed or damaged. Paissy church appears to be in the distance on the left.